Question

I am trying to setup Django to have profiles for authors. It needs to be a really simple solution and I have what I believe should work:

Model

from django.contrib.auth.models import User
class MyProfile(models.Model):
    "Extends the user object for custom attr"
    user = models.OneToOneField(User)
    website = models.URLField(blank=True,null=True)
    websiteName = models.CharField(max_length=255,blank=True,null=True)
    twitterHandle=models.CharField(max_length=255,blank=True,null=True)
    bio = models.TextField()

    User.profile = property(lambda u: MyProfile.objects.get_or_create(user=u)[0])

    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.user

Settings

AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE = "btc_app.UserProfile"

However whenever I create a profile I get a type error:

Exception Value: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, User
found

My post data looks like this

POST

website u''
bio u'tttt'
_save   u'Save'
twitterHandle   u''
user    u'2'
websiteName u''
csrfmiddlewaretoken u'5af9526bc84673fc3338d63272804b92'

There is a drop down with all the users in it and it lets me pick one but for some reason the save fails… Any ideas?

Thanks,
CG

Answer 1

The problem is that in your unicode method you’re returning an user instance, try something like

def __unicode__(self):
    return self.user.username